<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e39eed46-3e3e-431d-8abc-e636753a6bda/13D910AC-62DF-42CA-805E-EDEBA43B1C4D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx" href="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx">Unable to recognize voices, unless it's Sean Connery</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx">For as long as she could remember a 60-year-old British woman, known only as KH, has been unable to recognize voices, not even the voice of her own daughter. Unless she sees the face of the person speaking, she often has no idea who is talking to her. If her daughter calls on the phone, or an unseen colleague from work says something to her, it’s as if she’s hearing the voice for the first time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx"><TABLE width="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD align="left"><IMG hspace="0" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060312/060312_connery_vsml_3p.standard.jpg" alt="Image: Body Odd" /></TD></TR><TR><TD align="left" class="credit"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx">Except when <A target="_blank" href="http://perf2.msnbc.msn.com/id/26389326/" linkindex="8">Sean Connery </A>speaks.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/18/1679578.aspx"><P>“His accent is distinctive,” Duchaine explained. “And she <EM>is</EM> a British woman in her sixties…let’s say it’s probable he got her attention.”</p> <P>Eventually Duchaine and his colleagues realized KH was the first documented case of someone born without the ability to detect familiar voices. Doctors do sometimes see this condition called <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3416603" linkindex="15">phonagnosia</A> typically in the aftermath of a stroke when brain damage affects auditory perception. Developmental phonagnosia, however, is an inborn defect whose cause is still unknown. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13D910AC-62DF-42CA-805E-EDEBA43B1C4D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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